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TIL South Park aired an episode titled “Band in China”… which resulted in them being banned in China.

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WkEAX TIL in Mexico there's an adventure activity that simulates crossing the border into the USA, complete with fake border patrol and coyotes.
QJnVe TIL of a little worm that helps repair and defend stony coral: Eunice norvegica!
xVJB5 TIL of Northwest Airlines Flight 188. The pilots got distracted and overflew their destination by 150 miles.
BLjr TIL that The Pillars of Creation (as photographed by the Hubble telescope) don’t exist anymore. They were destroyed 1,000 yrs ago by an advancing supernova, but the light takes 7,000 yrs to reach us so they still appear intact.
0w6lA TIL, despite posing as a neutral country, Switzerland helped US and German intelligence services in gathering classified communications by selling rigged encoding devices to more than 120 governments.